Shirish Padalkar

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Shirish Padalkar is currently working as a senior consultant in ThoughtWorks. He regularly reads and writes code in different languages including Java, Scala, PHP. After considerable years of trying to understand Object Oriented Programming, he is now wandering in land of functional programming since last couple of years.

When not coding, he tries to find vulnerabilities in web applications, and preach about secure coding practices to developers. He regularly speaks at Agile, Developer, Security and Testing conferences or meet-ups.

He has self-published collection of essays from renowned technologists as ebook " 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know - Extended” on Leanpub.